Angus King

As Sen. Angus King pressed national security officials to open up about their ability to wage war over the Internet, he turned not to some think tank white paper to make his point, but a five-decade-old film about the dangers of nuclear brinkmanship.

"'Dr. Strangelove' taught us that if you have a doomsday machine and no one knows about, it's useless," the Maine independent said last week during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In Stanley Kubrick's 1964 satire, the Soviet Union has a weapon that will destroy the world in case of a U.S. nuclear strike. The deterrent should make war pointless — but Soviet leaders have not yet told the United...

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As Sen. Angus King pressed national security officials to open up about their ability to wage war over the Internet, he turned not to some think tank white paper to make his point, but a five-decade-old film about the dangers of nuclear brinkmanship.
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WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at a Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday.
The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered at...

Sen. Angus King says a bill he has co-sponsored would make it easier for government to attract technology innovators to public service. King, a Maine independent, says the bill would establish a law that makes a pathway to attract experienced...

A long list of Senate Democrats who face re-election in 2018 are from states Donald Trump won or nearly won on Election Day. That could mean a politically excruciating next two years for many of them and for party leaders trying to chart a legislative...

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